New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-08-10
PiTH AND POINT.

A laborer in Vermont recently
bought a lot of land which subsequent
ly developed into a very rich stone
quarry. His was a hard lot, but it had
its compensations. - National Weekly.
When a tramp is fortunate enough
to get hold OF the upper portion of a
roasted fowl he generally makes a
clean breast of it. Texas Sytlngs.
There is more Joy in sanctum fol-
the bore who is kicked than there is
for the ninety and nine who get away
with your fayorite exchanges. = White-
hall Times.
In the bright lexicon of youth there
is no such word as fail, but later on,
when the youth gets into business fol
himself, then the word shows up in
good shape.-Ldte.
An exchange refers to contempor.
ary as having changed its form to a
quarto. He could not probably, find
sufficient exhilaration in pinto. All,
thereof leras SJtings.
Some old dinner customs still prevail.
The Romans used to recline at their
banquets, and the habit of lying at
Commercial Bulletin.
s'The best thoughts" says an Eng
lish writer, ''come slowly" So do the
best men {; in fact, good men come SO
slowly that they often fail to get around
at all. -Arkansaa0 Traveller.
The rain falls upon the just and the
unjust, and is as ready to break up the
base ball game as it is to spoil picnic
for an orphan asylum. Orleans
Picayatne.
Art is long and time is feeting, but
the heavens will roll together as a
scroll and chaos will come again before
any of our hated rivals will have an
owl named after them. Now is the
time to subscribe. Job work in any
color of the rainbow executed with
neatness and Dispatch OIL City Der
rick.
The poor innocent, long-suffering,
much-abused monkeys! The cute, Graf
ty, cunning, cheerful, chattering mon
keys! The good, gentle, gracious, glib
bering, little monkeys! What on earth
have they done that they should be thus
misrepresented, and scandalized, and
libeled, and maligned, as to be men
toned in the same breath with the
dudes.--Pretsets Weekly.
A young correspondent wants to
know: '.What is the critical period in
a mans life?" Well, my boy, it usual
ly begins about six weeks after he is
married. and lasts all the rest of his
life.-Notes and Queries.
Toads become torpid in winter, and
hide themselves, taking no food for
four or five months, like candidates for
office, who hunt their holes and never ap.
pear again untiEust previous to nom.
mating convention National Weskzy.
Baseball playing" says an eminent
physician, "causes heart disease" Yes,
but the disease does it's work with pain
full slowness. Can't you find some
disease that. will transact business more
apidly?-Arkausaeo 7a'ave1er.
The telephone girls lii The central of.
fee don't feel insulted if man speaks
to them before he has been introduced.
He only has to say Hello" and they
will chat as freely as if they had sung in
the same church choir with hin.-FuU
Riuer Advancc.
- It is very difficult for lady to enter
or leave carriage properly. It re-
quires practice and carriage. The
carriage is the hardest thing to acquire.
-San Francisco Wasp.
"Umbagog," named by the Indians,
means in English beautiful water, y
but there are lots Of people along the
Androscoggin that would like to see
Umbagog's beautiful water damed.-
Gog;hCta7a 1Moat7atQineer.